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The Pocket Powerbox Advance is a welcome addition to the Powerbox product series. It proudly stands between Pocket and Ultimate Powerbox and it has been designed to provide more advanced features than Pocket Powerbox in a more compact / quality design.

4 x 12V DC Power outlets for your equipmentA powerful mosfet transistor provides “electric juice” to your precious equipment. Can switch on/off for all ports. Controller has been designed to support up to 12 Amps of total current.

Adjustable Regulated OutputAn adjustable output is suitable to provide power to your DSLR or Mirrorless camera. You can tune the voltage to different levels (3,5,8,9,12 Volts). Different battery couplers for Canon, Nikon, Sony, FUJI Cameras are available as accessories.

Built in Voltmeter and AmpmetersA precise voltmeter measures and displays in real time your input voltage. If the input is more than 14V, the power is instantly cut off to protect your equipment. An Amp-meter placed on the input reports the total current consumed. Moreover there are three additional amp-meters. One for the 12V outputs and two for the Dew Heater Channels. Now you can monitor the detailed power consumption of your equipment.

Standalone OperationPocket Powerbox Advance can work “out of the box” as a standalone device. Just plug the cables and you are ready to go. So, If you don’t like to connect a PC every time, you don’t have to. Simple as that!

Two channel duty cycle PWM outputsTwo Pulse width modulation (PWM) outlets are capable to provide power to your “thirsty” Dew Heaters. No more moisture fuzzing your equipment and destroying your clear nights. These outlets can be remote controlled from your laptop using the supplied software. The Controller can auto adjust the heater power levels by consulting the environmental sensor Dew Point reading. Just click “Auto” and leave it to the Pocket Powerbox to decide if it is time to turn on and precise tune the level of your dew heaters.

External Environmental SensorExternal temperature & relative humidity sensor is included in the package. Know exactly the environment conditions of your location. Temperature, humidity and dew point measurements are displayed in the software.

Embedded USB3 Hub – 4 x USB3 PortsA powered USB3 Hub at the back of the device provides 4 x USB3 SuperSpeed Ports. It supports Hi-Speed (HS), Full Speed (FS) and Low Speed (LS). The new SuperSpeed hubs operate in parallel with the USB 2.0 controller, so 5 Gbps SuperSpeed data transfers are not affected by slower USB 2.0 traffic. Please notice that only 3 out of 4 USB Ports are compatible to USB2 devices. A special USB Port provides 5.2V/3Amps, you can connect any device that requires 5V (e.g a Raspberry PI 3/4 or Intel Compute Stick M3/M5 can receive power from this port).

ASCOM 6 and INDI Fully supportedPocket Powerbox Advance fully supports ASCOM6. In combination with the main program which acts as a server you can use the latest ASCOM 6.4 supplied drivers to ass environmental settings to supported software (e.g Sequence Generator Pro / MaximDL ) (ASCOM ObservingConditions) and to switch ON or OFF all 12V outputs. (ASCOM Switches).Pocket powerbox fully supports INDI, Bundle it with Stellarmate or any other device that can use INDILib.

Led Indications for power and failure statesLed can blink in patterns to warn you regarding important power issues (e.g over or under voltage). Moreover light can be turned off using the software. The led is very dim but in case you don’t like it on you can switch it off via the software.

Power Cables are included in the packageFour power cable of DC 2.1mm to 2.1mm male (1m) are included in the package. Additional power cables with plugs for the Skywatcher EQ6-R, AZ-EQ6, AZ-EQ5 and EQ8 can be bought as accessories.

Reverse Polarity ProtectionDevice has been design with a reverse voltage polarity protection. It will definitely save your night if you accidentally connect the main power supply in reverse polarity!

WatchdogA hardware watchdog resets the device if for any reason there is no response from the controller for two seconds. A neat feature in the unlikely event of a controller freeze – when you have a remote observatory and you need to be certain that everything works as expected.

Upgradable FirmwareDevice is firmware upgradable to support future features and bug fixes.